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The iOS 5 lock screen brings us the camera button, which turned out to be pretty convenient. However, iOS developer Ron Melkhior has made an attempt to make the iOS 5 lock screen even more convenient by adding two more functions to the camera button area. The new jailbreak tweak, dubbed SwipeCam, will set you back $1.49 and allow you to swipe side to side on the camera button to pull up more options. Currently, SwipeCam supports toggling Wi-Fi and toggling Airplane Mode apart from being able to launch the Camera application. The screenshots above show you the toggles when they are enabled and the screenshots below show you the toggles when they are disabled:

The disabled toggles show an ‘X’ on them when they are off and the ‘X’ disappears when the toggles are enabled. Apart from the toggles, you can also find a preferences pane in the Settings application, which allows you to enable and disable SwipeCam at your convenience. Because of the nature of SwipeCam, if you have Camera Grabber for iOS 5 by Ori Kadosh installed for sliding up on your lock screen to launch the Camera applications, SwipeCam will not work and you will need to uninstall Camera Grabber for iOS 5 to use it.

While SwipeCam is a practical idea and many people will probably find its uses helpful, it is currently very limited in functionality and the icons are foreign to the iOS environment in terms of appearance. Possible future updates will address giving SwipeCam more options, properly removing Camera Grabber for iOS 5 upon install, and likely some added toggles and stability improvements. Known updates will include a location services toggle, brightness adjustment button, and power buttons for respringing, rebooting, powering down, and entering safe mode.

Using SwipeCam still requires you to double-press the home button at the lock screen to use. Taking into consideration the price tag of $1.49, you will find that the free SBSettings jailbreak tweak and the stock iOS 5 camera button will get the same job done just as quickly. The option is totally up to you about which path you wish to take.

Someone should take the popup that comes with the the recent 'HeadphoneLauncher' tweak, use toggles instead of apps, and make it double clickable like the iPod controls. Plus you'd still be able to use Camera Grabber. Although I'd rather just install Bulletin and put toggles in Notification Center.

Someone should take the popup that comes with the the recent 'HeadphoneLauncher' tweak, use toggles instead of apps, and make it double clickable like the iPod controls. Plus you'd still be able to use Camera Grabber. Although I'd rather just install Bulletin and put toggles in Notification Center.

or you could just set sbsettings to double click home button on lockscreen....

or you could just set sbsettings to double click home button on lockscreen....

I don't see the point in installing a new pulldown menu when iOS already has one natively, and a much smoother one at that. There are loads of tweaks for it, and I actually prefer the standard gesture over the double click anyway. Just thought that idea would be better for people looking for something like the tweak in the article.

Originally Posted by zrevai

Sbsettings isn't compatible with IntelliScreenX. If you open sbsettings when ISX is active even if ISX isn't visible it opens Notification Center on top of sbsettings and nothing closes

IntelliscreenX is amazing. It may be the single best package in Cydia. BUT it royally defiles my battery despite the fact that I've turned off every last suspect and reduced it to literally nothing but toggles (which is really all I want it for anyway, that and the ability to access NC on the lock screen). That's why I just go with the Bulletin/custom NC tweaks combo.

It kinda bugs me when people bash a tweak just because they don't have a use for it. It's pretty childish and small minded

All these little tweaks help everybody have the iPhone they want. I like having a lot of choices.

They have every right to bash the tweak if they wish. They don't have a use for it so they say so, they think it's a dumb tweak so they say so. Their opinion, though different than your own is still just as valid. Now I don't bash apps as I can't make one but I think this is a silly app and to charge for it is even sillier IMHO. Of course that is IMHO and obviously not yours or probably many others.